On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 20:24, Pigeon wrote: > From "man kbd" for X 4.3.0: (Doesn't exist in earlier versions) > > The following driver Options are supported: > > Option "Device" "string" > Specify the keyboard device. Default: the OS's > default console keyboard input source. > > This is /dev/console, right? No... explicitly specifying > Option "Device" "/dev/console" gives me garbage. /dev/kbd? Only exists > on SPARC. /dev/tty-I-started-X-from? No. /dev/xconsole? No, that's not > "the X version of /dev/console" but a special fifo for the xconsole > program. > > What I want to do is find out which /dev entry the above "default > console keyboard input source" refers to, then tell netcat to copy > /dev/whatever on a machine A without X to a fifo on a machine B which > is running X. XF86Config on machine B then specifies > Option "Device" "my-special-fifo" as its keyboard device. I can then > use X on machine B, with machine B's mouse and display, but with > keyboard input coming from machine A. > > But which /dev entry is it? Experimenting either gives me garbage or a > crash, /usr/share/doc/xspecs is of no help; Google has only given me > the negative result that /dev/kbd is only on SPARC. If only that > man page entry said "Default: /dev/somethingorother"... > > Can anybody help me fill in the blank please? Not up to 4.3 here, so I can only offer the technical side of why certain things didn't work. /dev/console is only the outbound stream of system (kernel and daemons) messages for logging review. My own suspicion is that it *could* be looking for the virtual console on which X11 is running, particularly if the virtual consoles are broken into multiple input and output file descriptors. Alternately, the XFree86 configuration is prone to defining devices individually higher in the file (InputDevice, Device, VideoAdaptor, Monitor,) and then assembling those pieces into a collection of devices that constitute the system they work at (the ServerLayout.) Could you post the segment where you find this line? Otherwise, I am not sure that I am picturing the configuration entirely correctly - the keyboard you are seeking to use is on a remote box to where X11 is running, but the mouse is on the system with X11? I am not sure that anyone quite pictured that mix of input sources for one user. I'd suggest that maybe the familiarity with that level of configuration might be on the level of contacting the debian-x list, or XFree86.org directly. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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